Sock or stocking.



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PATENTED "JULY 31, 1906.

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lNvEmT-W AITITDITIKIEYS UNITED STATES. PATENT OFFICE. oTTo HT'IBEL AND JOSEF soLLHUBEa, OF COLOGNE, GERMANY.

SOCK OR STOCKING- Patented July 31, 1906.

Application filed October 16. 1905. Serial No. 283.009.

To all whom itmay concern.-

Be it known that we, OTTO HI'iBEL and JOSEF SoLLHUBER, subjects of the German Emperor, residing at 27 Altenbergenstrasse, Cologne, Germany, have invented new and useful Improvements in Socks or Stockings, of which the following is a specification.

It is well known that knitted socks or stockings for persons who have long distances to cover on foot are very impracticable, because the elastic knitted material fits very tightly around the foot and consequently easily causes perspiration. Moreover, such material is also not capable of cooling the footwhen it has become warm, and for this reason the knitted material is frequently'replaced by a strip of linen or cotton which is wrapped around the foot. This latter kind of footcovering, has, however, the disadvantage that a very uniform wrapping of the foot with the strip of linen requires a certain amount of skill and the fastening of the strip is liable to get loose when walking or uneven places are pi'oduced in the strip, which constitutes a 'ndrance to the wearer when walking.

The object of the resent invention is to obviate the aforesaid rawbacks.

The invention consists of a strip of material, preferably linen, which is sewed in the form of a sock or stocking. This sock has the advantage over the usual knitted material that it does not fit so ti htly around the foot, so that the latter is notliable to get heated so quickly, as is the case with the usual kind of foot-covering. The improved sock is also better adapted to cool the heated foot, and

when the strip is properly cut folds or creases will not be produced therein.

The borders of the cut strip of material are preferably united by sewing onto the out side thereof narrow strips of material. That part of the sock which fits around the foot may preferably be provided with flaps, to which ribbon or the like can be attached, so as to be fastened around the leg.

The improved foot-covering is shown in the accompanying drawings.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan vieW of the blank and Fig. 2 is an elevation of the completed stocking as it appears upon the foot.

It consists of a strip of material a, preferably of linen, which when properly out is of the shape shown in Fig. 1, and when the borders b aresewed together the sock assumes the shape as shown in Fig. 2. Narrow strips of material 0 are sewed onto the outside of the borders, so that no uneven places will be produced, which would constitute a hindrance to the wearer when walking. By the sections e and f in the strip of material according to Fig.1,which are also sewed together by strips of material 0 c and which form the so-called sock, the sock receives the proper shape. That portion of the sock fitting around the foot proper is rovided with flaps g, which are placed around the leg and united by ribbons h. Separate portions g g to be united with the ribbons may be sewed onto the flaps g, as shown in Fig. 1. These flaps 9 may of course be dispsensed with and a knitted or woven upper portion attached to the stocking-foot proper.

- Having thus described our invention, what we claim is Animproved stocking comprising a single piece of material partially divided into two portions by two transverse slits, the foot portion having two longitudinal slits therein, and the legportion having a central longitudinal slit therein, the edges of the material and the edges of each slit being sewed together to form the complete stocking.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two. subscribing witnesses.

- OTTO HUBEL.

J OSEF SOLLHUBER. Witnesses:

URsULA PRATZ, LOUIS VANDORY. 

